Preserving compound and process of making the sa?.



ALONZO CHASE HAGER, OF MISSOULA, MONTANA.

PRESERVING COMPOUND AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAI Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5

Application filed May 16, 1905- Serial No. 260,722.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALoNzo CHASE HAGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Missoula, in the county of Missoula and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Preserving Compounds and Processes of Making the Same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a process for preserving eggs my more particular object being to ena e the eggs to be kept fresh for comparatively long periods of time without injuring them as articles of food.

I take twenty gallons of clean water and add thereto six pounds of powdered quicklime, together with three pounds of salt, and stir thoroughly. I allow the admixture to stand twenty-four hours, stirring it at intervals. I next admix four ounces of cream of tartar, four ounces of nitrate of potash, four ounces of English soda, four ounces of borax, and four ounces of alum. I then dissolve these ingredients in hot water and allow the solution to stand until cooled. I add this to the solution of limewater and stir thoroughly. I next lace the solution in a barrel and fill the 'atter with eggs to Within three inches of the to of the solution. I then take four ounces 0 beeswax, four ounces of rosin, and four ounces of tallow, melt the three ingredients last mentioned, boil them for ten minutes, and then pour the resulting liguid over the top of the solution in the barre I now allow the barrel to stand until the eg s are ready to be sold and then remove t e eggs, washing them clean in a solution of clean water containing pearline. I

next dry the eggs, whereupon they a for the market.

I have found upon actual trial t prepared as above described can be 1 ectly fresh for six months or longei Having thus described my inve claim as new and desire to secure b Patent- 1. A preservative compound co the following ingredients in substani proportions stated, to wit: water, gallons, powdered -quicklime s1x common s a l t, three pounds, cream four ounces, nitrate of otash, 613 English soda, four ounces, borax,fou and alum four ounces.

2. e process herein described paring a preservative, which consist mg twenty gallons of water, addin; six pounds of powdered quicklime 2 pounds of salt, stirring the same th allowing the admixture to stand twr hours, then admixing four ounces of tartar, four ounces of nitrate 0 four ounces of English soda, four borax and four ounces of alum, c said last-mentioned ingredients in h allowing the solution to stand unt then adding said solution to said 1 tioned admixture, and stirring th' In testimony whereof I have si name to this specification in the p1 two subscribing witnesses.

ALONZO CHASE I-I Witnesses: 7 JOHN M. EVANS, E. A. PALMER. 

